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chaosapiant posted:People today still believe the Earth is flat and that evolution is a lie. There’s a wide spectrum of religious beliefs and reasons to adhere to those beliefs. If it was an occasional character's that's one thing, but it's the majority of characters who treat religion as a joke or not something to believe in, and GURM is the one who markets his world as a "realistic depiction of the medieval world". But it's not. That person who tore apart his Dothraki culture also did the same about religion.
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I mean one of his lines about realism was "what was Aragorn's tax policy" indicating he either just didn't read Return of the King or has a very strange view of what medieval taxes were. Guaranteeing minority land rights, rebuilding infrastructure, and ending slavery in conquered lands has significantly more to do with actual medieval ruleship, than the endless minutiae of overlapping taxes in the modern world.
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Mar 8, 2024 19:46
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What is Joffrey's tax policy lol. How does the bureaucracy of the state function in Westeros. Do septons do everything? Are there judges, sherrifs, baliffs? He's basing this world off late Plantagenet England which had an extensive and thorough bureaucracy but aside from mentioning that, like, tax collectors exist there's no real idea for how anything in Westeros works aside from the military relationship of knight-lord-king
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Mar 8, 2024 20:40
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The tax policy thing wasn't a 'takedown' of Tolkien for not being realistic enough, it's the question of 'what makes a good ruler?'. Gurm doesn't agree that the answer is 'divine right' and exploring that is one of ASOIAF's main themes. There are many things for which to criticise the fat man, but 'brain not sufficiently ruined with word building disease' isn't one of them.
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Mar 9, 2024 04:39
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The most recent thing he wrote was an in-universe history book for world building lol
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DaysBefore posted:The most recent thing he wrote was an in-universe history book for world building lol He's been on a spree of that of late. At this point I wish he'd just write TWoW and ADoS from a maester's perspective. He might actually finish that way.
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DaysBefore posted:The most recent thing he wrote was an in-universe history book for world building lol Wasn't this mostly written by his racist sycophants? As in he gave them his notes and outlines and they filled it all in.
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Mar 9, 2024 21:25
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That’s what I remember too The absolute fucker didn’t write even that
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I don't see any mention of the epic nazi fanwiki freaks on Fire and Blood but it's certainly possible lol
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Mar 9, 2024 23:04
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Wikipedia posted:In 2014, more than 200,000 words were removed from the manuscript of Martin's companion book The World of Ice & Fire and were incorporated into Fire & Blood.
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I saw an alt shift x vid recently and it made me decide to do the books. Rather than reading them, I am audiobooking them and it's going okay. thoughts so far, about 1/2 through book 1: A lot of the TV show is really well done, but it's nice having more character motivations. Ned is even stupider in the book than on the show. Cat sucks even more. Ned has just decided to leave Kings Landing. So he still has his head, even if it is full of stupid.
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Mar 12, 2024 23:12
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It’s weird looking back on my first read, rooting for Ned and admiring his honor as a character. Every subsequent read is more like “this dude is an idiot and absolutely incapable of doing politics.”
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Arya: Dad, I followed some dudes and they said they were going to kill you. Ned, after finding out the previous hand was killed: "Arya, shut up and go to your room with your imagination!"
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Mar 13, 2024 04:59
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The more you think about it the worse it gets. Ned fought two rebellions at the head of a kingdom. How is he this bad with power? The last time he was in this very city, it was being sacked by Lannister men.
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Platystemon posted:The more you think about it the worse it gets. These are people who have to write down and constantly remind themselves that seasons exist — you were expecting them to be savvy?
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Mar 13, 2024 05:23
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Littlefinger: it's my dagger but I lost it in a bet with Tyrion. Dumb and Dumber: it must be Tyrion who did it. He's got to be as stupid as we are. Of course he'd use a weapon that was traceable back to him. Tyrion: Are you loving stupid? Dumber: (she just got to the Aerie but is having doubts) The weird thing about going through these books is waiting for book 4 when there should be a deluge of new stuff. So far almost everything has happened is in the show or was cut for obvious reasons, or merged with other things. Another thought is that some of the writing is quite good. Except the girl parts, but most men have trouble writing women, so it's not too surprising.
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Mar 13, 2024 05:26
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The one thing Gurm doesn’t get too much poo poo for is his writing. Like technically it’s pretty good but it should be since he’s been doing it for so long.
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Mar 13, 2024 05:30
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Yeah the man has soooooo many damned faults but the fucker can actually craft a novel, shame it will never happen again.
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Mar 13, 2024 06:05
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https://georgerrmartin.com/notablog/2024/03/11/words-of-wisdom-2/ He's got people on the hopium because the last time he did a post like this, Dance was finished.
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Mar 13, 2024 08:40
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Ned was lucky the North was almost all houses that are blindly loyal to the Starks as an institution, outside of the Boltons. I think it was said he was a good battlefield commander but just an okay fighter, which is why people tend to think he beat Arthur Dayne in an unhonorable way and he doesn’t like to think about it.
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Mar 13, 2024 13:44
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Josuke Higashikata posted:https://georgerrmartin.com/notablog/2024/03/11/words-of-wisdom-2/ I thought the post that signalled Dance's arrival was "Kong is Dead."
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Arbite posted:I thought the post that signalled Dance's arrival was "Kong is Dead." That post was a picture of a dead king kong in a similar way this post is just images. I don't believe it for a second
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Mar 13, 2024 14:39
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Before I started on this journey I saw that he'd written 1200 pages or so. Why not just release a bunch of it as its own book? Make it an 8 or 9 book series. Just release something and appease your fans. Why release a 1600 page book that is 4 times as long as a normal book? 5 times?
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Waltzing Along posted:Before I started on this journey I saw that he'd written 1200 pages or so. I dont believe that
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Invalid Validation posted:The one thing Gurm doesn’t get too much poo poo for is his writing. Like technically it’s pretty good but it should be since he’s been doing it for so long. Martin is pretty good about subject/verb agreement and knows what words mean. But ... fat pink mast, Dany's diarrhea, creepy Mercy poo poo, etc. His spelling is poo poo too judging by his blog. He's a professional writer who is competent. If anything, he doesn't get enough poo poo for his writing.
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bobjr posted:Ned was lucky the North was almost all houses that are blindly loyal to the Starks as an institution, outside of the Boltons. I thought the whole thing was pretty laid out that Ned was definitively dead against Dayne except Howland Reed (WHERE WAS ANY OF THE REED poo poo IN THE SHOW) did something to save him. WHERE WAS ALL THE REED poo poo IN THE SHOW. HOWLAND REED WAS loving ALIVE WHERE THE gently caress WAS HOWLAND REED. I know he was technically in the flashback but come the gently caress on.
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Woodpile posted:Martin is pretty good about subject/verb agreement and knows what words mean. But ... fat pink mast, Dany's diarrhea, creepy Mercy poo poo, etc. His spelling is poo poo too judging by his blog. He's a professional writer who is competent. If anything, he doesn't get enough poo poo for his writing. Also his thing where he falls in love with one archaic sounding word per book cf “nuncle”, “jape”, “serjeant”
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Lol yeah him discovering a new old word and retroactively making it very common rules. Helps that there are 37 years between each installment of his secen-part trilogy
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TGG posted:I thought the whole thing was pretty laid out that Ned was definitively dead against Dayne except Howland Reed (WHERE WAS ANY OF THE REED poo poo IN THE SHOW) did something to save him. The Reeds got done so dirty in the show. Howland Reed is some sort of tiny guerilla fighter, handy with the old magic and the crannogman blowdarts and perhaps not overburdened with standard morals regarding the honourable warfare, given what other characters say about crannogmen. An intriguing combination of incredible, decades-spanning loyalty to Ned Stark and his secrets, and 100% avoidance of the world outside his marsh. A man who sends his children into a rapidly escalating warzone to lead a nine-year old paralyzed child up beyond the Wall, and who perhaps holds the key to legitimizing Jon Snow/telling the truth about whatever the hell Rhaegar Targaryean was up to, 20 years ago/letting us in on whatever weird poo poo is on the Isle of Faces at Harrenhall. In the show you don't get any of that. You just get Jojen getting blown up with bad CGI, and poor Meera Reed dragging Brans' useless, complaining arse up and down a thousand miles of snow, then in her last episode he tells her to gently caress off, he doesn't need her any more, and we never see her again. So dumb. So annoying.
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Honestly, if GURM can redeem the Reeds and make them the focal point I'll at least read the books. Maybe forgive him. Maybe
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Josuke Higashikata posted:https://georgerrmartin.com/notablog/2024/03/11/words-of-wisdom-2/ It's me. I'm hope 
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It's never coming out And if it comes out it will be bad And if it isn't then we've moved on And if we haven't then shut up
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It will come out. The book after? That will never come out.
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I heard there's a theory that Howland Reed Warged Dayne and is now him, which is why he's so reclusive, but I also like the idea that he just threw a net over him and him and Ned just stabbed him.
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Waltzing Along posted:It will come out. The book after? That will never come out. This is where I am. I fully expect a giant 6th novel at some point that is pretty decent, offers some good payoffs from books 4 and 5, and most of all, ends on several giant new cliffhangers that never ever get resolved. Here’s my secret: I still enjoy the books, including 4 and 5, and I also like the show, even the ending. My biggest beef with the show isn’t any of the plot points themselves, but that seasons 7 and 8 are so much shorter, and some of the plot twists don’t feel earned as a result. But should book 6 come out I’ll gladly read it. I’m not going to pretend like all of a sudden he’s a poo poo author writing poo poo books.
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My theory is that Howland killed seven shades of poo poo out of Dayne fairly but is too much of a recluse to take any credit.
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The Howland Reed theorycrafting was strong back in the day when we thought more books were coming out. It's now been replaced by theories about lemon trees, and Khal Drogo warging into his own horse, but back in the day there was some good poo poo out there when discussing Howland Reed.
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bobjr posted:I heard there's a theory that Howland Reed Warged Dayne and is now him, which is why he's so reclusive, but I also like the idea that he just threw a net over him and him and Ned just stabbed him. Yeah I always figured he just got him with a poison dart / snare trap / good old backstab like in the show. Just some sort of dishonourable tactic, not bog magic. Could be bog magic too, though. I wouldn't mind.
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chaosapiant posted:This is where I am. I fully expect a giant 6th novel at some point that is pretty decent, offers some good payoffs from books 4 and 5, and most of all, ends on several giant new cliffhangers that never ever get resolved. It's called Stockholm Syndrome. Stockholm is in Sweden, so that means your as bad of a human as the swedish lore nazis by proxy Sorry, I don't make the rules
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Anonymous Zebra posted:The Howland Reed theorycrafting was strong back in the day when we thought more books were coming out. It's now been replaced by theories about lemon trees, and Khal Drogo warging into his own horse, but back in the day there was some good poo poo out there when discussing Howland Reed. There was a delightful post in Reddit from a guy whose reading comprehension was not up to scratch/was reading in his second language, and was very confused about crannogmen shooting someone (ie with a blowdart/arrow) and took it to mean the folk of the Neck had some sort of primitive gun. Which of course leads to the memetic theory that Howland Reed was packing heat on the road to the Tower of Joy, and blew away Arthur Dayne with a .22 Valyrian Steel Shotgun, which is genuinely the only theory I will now accept.
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